Book Review
Century's Witness
Century’s Witness is Mary Llewellyn McNeil’s behind-the-scenes biography of a respected newsman. One of Wallace Carroll’s greatest gifts as a journalist was his timing. Fresh from journalism school in Milwaukee, he was the first...
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The Home-Scale Forest Garden
Dani Baker is the dreamer and planner behind the Enchanted Edible Forest, three acres in New York that were cultivated over a decade to grow more organic, edible plants. "The Home-Scale Forest Garden" brings these permaculture gardening...
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Deliberate Evil
Edward J. Renehan Jr.’s "Deliberate Evil" is about a true crime from long ago: the upper-class murder that shook Salem, Massachusetts in the 1830s. That spooky setting is fleshed out with lots of literary references, enriching the...
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It’s the End of the World
Adam Roberts’s entertaining cultural survey "It’s the End of the World" takes an omnivorous approach to the apocalypse, devoting space to possible mass extinctions wrought by deities, zombies, viruses, and climate change. The book...
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Under the Rainbow
"Under the Rainbow" is an amiable and elegant diary set during Covid-19 stay-at-home orders, when rainbows were displayed as a symbol of unity and appreciation with Britain’s National Health Services workers. James Attlee reports from...
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The God Beat
"The God Beat" collects twenty-six unexpected, thought-provoking stories of belief. In the text, profiles of charismatic figures stand out, as of a hugging guru who tours Northern California in “Amma’s Cosmic Squeeze,” and of...
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We Are the Baby-Sitters Club
The members of the Baby-Sitters Club are back—and wiser, older, and more inclusive—in the rich, diverse essays and comics of "We Are the Baby-Sitters Club". This vibrant collection reveals the impact of the series on its readers, who...
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Voices of the Border
The testimonies collected in "Voices of the Border" are powerful as they relay systemic failures to care for those who seek asylum at the US’s southern border. The humanitarian and Catholic Kino Border Initiative of Nogales serves...